Shrawan Kumar is the John R. and Louise S. Parker distinguished professor of mathematics

Mathematics

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  at the University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina

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 at Chapel Hill. He has written two books: Kac-Moody groups, their flag varieties, and representation theory and Frobenius splitting methods in geometry and representation theory (jointly with Michel Brion).

Born and raised in Ghazipur

Ghazipur

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, India

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, Shrawan Kumar earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Mumbai

University of Mumbai

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 and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research is a research institution in India dedicated to basic research in mathematics and the sciences. It is a Deemed University and works under the umbrella of the Department of Atomic Energy of the Government of India. It is located at Navy Nagar, Colaba, Mumbai...

 (TIFR), Mumbai in 1986. His advisor was S. Ramanan

S. Ramanan

Professor S. Ramanan is an Indian mathematician who works in the area of algebraic geometry, moduli spaces and Lie groups. He completed his Ph. D. at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, under the direction of M. S. Narasimhan, with whom he collaborated for decades. He later pursued a...

. Shrawan Kumar is the younger brother of Gopal Prasad

Gopal Prasad

Gopal Prasad is an Indian mathematician. His research interests span the fields of Lie groups, their discrete subgroups, algebraic groups, arithmetic groups, geometry of locally symmetric spaces, and representation theory of reductive p-adic groups.He is the Raoul Bott Professor of Mathematics at...

, a professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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, and the elder brother of Dipendra Prasad, a professor of mathematics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research is a research institution in India dedicated to basic research in mathematics and the sciences. It is a Deemed University and works under the umbrella of the Department of Atomic Energy of the Government of India. It is located at Navy Nagar, Colaba, Mumbai...

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